The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-20 00:00:00

BRIGHTON: BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19.—1 n consequence of the slight fatigue her Majesty underwent yesterday in the performance of the journey from Windsor to Brighton she has not been out to-day ; neither have we seen the Duchess of Kent nor any of the Royal suite in public. The Royal dinner party, by invitation this evening, will comprise the Earl and Countess Cowper, Sir George Ha milton Seymour, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Colonel Stawell (12th Lancers), Hon. Major Keppel, and the Earl of Surrey. The calls at the Palace this day have been exceedingly numerous. Among the most distinguished are—The Dowager Lady Ellenborough and Miss Law, Earl and Countess of Munster, Sir Willoughby and Lady Rooke, Sir C. and Lady des Vceux, Duchess of Roxburgh, Mar chioness of Ailesbury, Dowager Lady Brovvnlow, Marchio ness of Thomond, Lord and Lady Ashley, Dowager Countess of Charleville, Major and Mrs. Johnson, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Marchioness and Ladies Corn wallis. Her Majesty, on alighting from her carriage last night, w as rec e i ve d b y the Earl of Surrey, Lord Treasurer ; Hon. W. A. Murray, Master of the Household ; and Colonel Berkeley Drummond, C omman di ng Officer of the Scot s Fusilier Guards. Th e P r i ncess Augusta received the Queen in the drawing -room. The Roy a l di nner party compr i se d — Th e D uchess of Kent, Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, Lady Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen, Hon. Miss Murray, Hoa. Miss Pitt, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Colonel Buckley, Hon. Major Keppel, and the Earl of Surrey. T he Queen commanded the display of fireworks at half- Past nine o'clock, in order that her Majesty and the Royal Party might witn ess it f rom th e P a l ace apartments. O ur resident pyrotechnist excelled himself, and we are informed that the Queen expressed her gratification at the exhibition. The second visit of the Queen to Brighton is a suffi lent refutatio n of the unfounded rumours of her Majesty's dislik e to the place, which were so industriously circulated last year, immediately after the Queen's departure. A Royal salute was fired from the battery this morning at twelve o'clock in honour of her Majesty's visit. The Funs were not fired last night in consequence of her Ma jesty's not having arrived till after sunset. It is said that her Majesty was detained at Windsor in signing some state Papers. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the performance at the Olympic Theatre on Tuesday evening with her presence. A de putation of m erc h an t s h a d an i n t erv i ew w ith Vis count Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street, and pre sented a memorial to his Lordship on the subject of the Warfare in Spain. The deputation consisted of James Pat- Esn' Esq'' M.P. ; Alderm an Venables, D av id S a l omons , ~. q..; Thomas B arnewa ll , E sq. ; H enry Barnewall, Psq. ; Francis D art h ez, jun., Esq. ; Brodie Wilcox, Esq. ; Francis Pegler, Esq. ; and David Haes, Esq. n Celonel J ac k son and Captain Marshall, College of Civ:l g i neers, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yes terday in Downing -street. Or. S tevenson, the American Minister, and Baron , I °'9e, the D an i s h Mi n i ster, transacted business at the F oreign Offic e yesterday. The Marquis of Normanby had an interview with Vis count Melbourne yesterday. The Chief of Clanranald, Dr. Lushington, and Mr. 'lnch had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday. Lord Melbourne transacted business yesterday at his 14 ee in Downing -street. Despat c h es, d ate d t h e 27t h u l t., were rece i ve d yesterday at For e i gn D epartment f rom L or d P onson b y, t h e Bri 'su Ambassador at Constantinople. Lord Glenelo. transacted business yesterday at the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's' office in Downing-street. D epartm en t were f orwar d e d yester d a y f rom th e H ome •- ' e hartme n t for Lord John Russell, at Cashiobury Park. The Austrian, French, Turkish, and Russian Ambassa uors transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Depart tnent. , - h"espatch es were f orwar d e d yes t er d ay f rom th e F ore i gn ;' e Partm en t for the British Ambassadors at the Courts of ‘isbon, Berlin, and Vienna. Si r J. Conroy, it was said, was in the neighbour -cod of the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, in conse quence of the trial in which he was interested ; but he was I wn Publicly seen, so as to be generally recognised. It a ,ving been rumoured that the Duch ess o f K en t h a d b een sub poenaed, and would be examined on th a t t r i a l, many per *ens wete induced to attend in consequence : it is unneces sary to add, that her Royal Highness was neither examined uer even in attendance. It is rumoured about the Courts, that in the event tf th e S olicitor-General declining the Judgeship, vacant by he death of Sir Allan Park, the choice of a successor will he between Mr. Wightman and Mr. Maule, the gentlemen Whose chambers in the Temple were burnt, it may be re ,•`'etti ü bered, also destroying those of the Attorney eneral, Sec- Many may remember that George 111., immediately lifter his accession, was desperately enamoured of a fair 9uaker ess , b y w h om h e h a d a son . Th a t o ff s p r i ng , it use d 'he stated, became eminent at the bar, and afterwards t e , ehed the bench : he has not been long dead. Such was the cur i ous talk sub rosa. The fair Quaeress was spirited !Way, and what became of her, whether she be dead or alive, '4O record is known to exist to state. Prep aratory to i mprov i ng T ot hill- street an d th e I : ei ghbourh oo d th ereo f, b y th e f ormat i on of direct tho i:ughfares to Pi m li co , th e usua l no ti ces have been given ,s):°ecupants and others, that next Session there will be ap- Fue ation made to Parliament for a Bill to authorise a " Com- Pa ll" f or th e f orwar di ng o f suc h wor k s . Pl a ns of th e the.lectedan improvements have been for some time circu- ; dif the paper pr o mi s es be realised the alterations Fill he most extensive. RThe works t owar d s th e b u ildi n g of the really grand efor m„bat Club-hou se , P a ll- ma ll, b eg i n to look formidable : is, the site promises a remarkably extensive building, Cl ub -hou se , that w ill b e bi g enough to smot h er t h e " C onserva tive" 'ub-hou se , its next-door neighbour. Mr. Barry is the ar c hitect, an d i n such hands there may b e expecte d wor k s solid as the pri nc ipl es o f R e f orm are p ow erful. The King of the F r en c h, in affecting to hold out 1 1 2 nut the Dutch having Luxembourg, although the other ° wers award against hi m , i s suspec t e d, untruly, no doubt "hut such is the value of being suspected of stockjobbing 1 31, ° Pensities—of not being indisposed to dabble in Belgian ° 4 . 1 8 ! Be the f a ct w h a t it m ay, his Majesty's resist on,ee, whi c h w ill prove to b e mere a ff ec t a ti on , h a d th e bbutof b r i ng i ng d own t h e sa id B on d s a b out 3 per cen t.— ut more—but enoug h to ena bl e b uyers t o turn a few U ndred S. E ' Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the as t Indi a H ouse, w h en Si r J ames Rivett Carnac, B art., was sworn in as Governor of Bombay. Sir James after twharda din e d w ith t h e C our t a t th e L on d on T avern , w h en ue Directors were honoured with the company of her ; La jesty's Ministers, and several other distinguished per -4ages. The birth-day of the King of the Belgians, who tit tered hi s 49th year on Sunday last, was celebrated at E -tr ussels with great ceremony and every testimony of joy. arly in the morning a new flag, bearing his Majesty's jiTher, was di sp l ayed from the Tree of Liberty, p l ante d i n ue Pla ce d e l a Monnaie, and all the public buildings were deco rated in like manner. The Cardinal Archbishop of I . i ne% came i n grea t pomp to t h e Ch urc h o f St. G u d u l e L tel e b rate Te Deum, his train being borne by four priests. he Queen was present at th e p er f ormance o f t h e ceremon y. tATHS OF MEMB ERS OF THE CORPORA tr,I'I OF LONDON.—There has not been for many years so tQ at a mortality amongst the members of the Corpora thA":)f the City of London, as has been registered within 4 1 : e ytst year. Si nce l as t St. Thomas's Day there have eigh t wo Aldermen, viz., Winchesters and Atkins, and eernmon.councilmen, viz., deputy Cartwright, deputy 4("e ; the f a th er o f t h e C our t, Si r William Rawlings ; k t r • Thoma s D av i s, M r. E . J. J oyce, M r . J o h n S aun d ers , G. Jarman, and Mr. Samuel Rice. 1:1 4 %- °rnparative c i rcu l at i on o f t h e L on d on Evenin th: er s as extr ac t e d f rom t h e of fi c i a l returns pu bli s h e d by tenabe tamp Office for the six months from April 1 to Sep -30, 1838, inclusive Total, Six Months. Daily Average. SUN ...... 750,000 Standard 523,000 Globe Courier 11 CHARLES DUKE and T DONNE, es Registrar. te ste r of Warrants Office, Stamps, ax, Oct, 20, 1838. p et r ti eral men, dressed as sailors, are carrying about th e °tl s , Purporting that they have been shipwrecked off eff ect east of I re l and, and produc i ng cert i ficates to the same sii n On S a t ur d ay t h ey ca ll e d on a nava l gent l eman re latiei in Lower Berkeley -street, to whom they told a me fot,4lY tale of the sufferings they bad undergone. He tio t h ; howeve r , a f ter quest i on i ng t h em , t h at t h ey k new th e fl tt eith er o f the most trivial of naut i cal matters or of ar ee i t :_ a st off whi c h t h ey state d t h at t h ey h a d b een ship atisfiecil ; and, on making further i nqu i r i es, h e was fully ar e ti ; that th e men were i mpu d ent i mpostors. Th ere Part„ a of the m a ll d resse d a lik e ; t h e spo k esman o f t h e a v e Y a tall, weat h erbeaten-look i ng man, w i t h d ar k h a i r, Prominent nose, black eyes, and shaggy eyebrows. teti rnat , a sear over hi s right temple. We trust that this herd can will be su ffi c i ent to place our rea d ers on t h e i r b _?lst bei ng d upe d . When the men found that ne Art "" t r o discove re d t h ey showed considerable anxiety to I " m the house, which they were permitted to do. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Having read and beard so much about the physical. force men of the North, and the vast numbers that assemble in country districts to listen to the advocates of the People's Charter, I was led by curiosity last evening to attend the meeting in Theobald's-road, where Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Vin cent, and others, according to hand-bills, were to explain the objects and plans of the Chartists. The meeting was not large ; the great proportion of the audience appeared to be sober, hard-working artizans, with a few stragglers, and some half dozen of women. The speakers were listened to with great attention, and the proceedings altogether were con ducted with propriety and good order. I arrived too late to hear the whole of Mr. O'Connor's speech, but had the benefit of listening for an hour to Mr. Vincent, who gave an outline of what had been done, and what was intended to be done; and which, considering the position he holds in the Association, may be taken as the opinion of the whole body. Though not a little was said about physical force—about thick legs, and strong arms, and vast numbers, amounting through out Great Britain to four millions, ready to assert Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments—Mr. Vincent repudiated all idea of violence, and affirmed, with every appearance of sincerity, that a revolution by bayonets was not the revolution which they wanted, or which could ultimately end for the benefit of the people. If physical force was not directed against them they would remain peaceable. If their demands were not complied with, all the operatives throughout the kingdom would strike work on a given signal; and if the Government and the Parliament did not give them their rights they would take them. These sentiments were gene rally cheered ; but the audience seemed to expect something more, possibly some demonstration how the plan would work ; how two millions of operatives could get food without labour or plunder, or take their rights from an established Govern ment without physical force—of these, however, not one word was said. The brave patriots of Canada were pitied, and the Government abused for putting them down ; but the responses were neither general nor hearty. Indeed, a more discreet and sensible audience it would be difficult to find, and no speaker could be more cordially cheered than 4,11 r. Vincent was, when he touched on practical measures—when he denounced the Established Clergy for keeping the people in ignorance, and arraying themselves with the Aristocracy and the Three per Cent. men, only to put money in their pockets ; when he pointed to the vast load of debt incurred by the extravagance and robbery of the upper classes, and called on all good Reformers to be sober and eschew disunion as the worst of evils. But the epilogue spoilt the whole, for al most in the same breath he beseeched them to avoid dif ferences, and denounced Mr. O'Connell as a tool of the Government; Lord Durham as the first cousin of Nicholas; Lord Brougham as a mischievous rascal; and Lord John Russell as a little man only four feet two inches high. If we take Mr. Vincent as a specimen of the Chartists, they have been cruelly maligned. He is evidently a kind-hearted mart, loves a joke, and feels sincere sorrow for the starving hard working classes ; but I would say, he is the last man in the world that would have recourse to " cold lead," or " sharp steel." Dec. 20. A RADICAL REFORMER TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—Perceiving a report of a Public Meeting in your Paper of yesterday, headed " Working Men's Association," and at which meeting censure was expressed towards the Scotch Delegates, I beg to inform your readers that it was not a meeting of the London Working Men's Association, but that of the St. Pancras Association. I remain, your obedient servant, 6, Upper North-place, W. LOVETT. Gray's Inn-road, Dec. 20, 1838. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BUNGAY, DEC. 17, 1838. Sru,—l send a guinea, which I will thank you t'o convey by some means to Llanelly, towards defraying the expenses incurred by the imprisonment of Mr. James in Caermarthen jail. I have deferred this for a fortnight, in the daily expec tation that some steps would be taken for this purpose by some of the Societies in London. I hope this persecution, and the spirit in which it appears to have been taken up and carried on, will teach Dissenters the false position in which they are placed by consenting to become office-bearers in a State-endowed Church. The form of a Church• Warden's oath was as follows : " You shall swear truly and faithfully to execute the office of Church-Warden within your parish, and according to the best of your skill and knowledge present such things and persons as toyour knowledge are presentableby the laws ecclesiastical of this realm : so help you God and the con tents of this book." But now the Church-Wardens are required, by the .sth and 6th William IV., to make a declaration to this effect instead of taking the oath. Let Dissenters, instead of making such a declaration as the above, quietly leave their Church neighbours to con duct their own affairs, neither attwling,-their Vestries, nor doing any thing to obstruct them in the execution of their duty, but only remain passive under the operation of the law, the and strife which at present prevails on this subject in nearly every parish in the kingdom, will very soon subside into tranquility and peace. I am, Sir, your obedient se'vant, JOHN CHILDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You were pleased to insert in your newspaper a false report of a hearing at Guildhall, in which you have made me appear as a criminal, instead of a person of another name against whom I was summoned to give evidence. I need not say how mischievous such a gross mis-statement may be to my character, and I request you will publish this letter and make some apology for your error. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOS. GALLAWAY. 15, Hay's-place, Lisson-grove. [Mr. Gallaway labours under a mistake; he will see upon reference to the report in our paper, that no charge whatever has been imputed to him.] TARTAN DRESSES.—The rage for Highland dresses appears to be on the increase rather than on the wane. We have seen letters and orders from all parts of the Continent, from the Empress of Russia, and from the Court Nobility of England, to Mr. D. Macdougall, of this town, ordering the various sets and patterns of the Clan tartans. The powerful aid of high rank, beauty, and fashion, is thus en listed in favour of " The Garb of Old Gaul," and has floated it into universal popularity.—lnvet ?ICU Courier. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday at the Three King's, Davies -street, Berkeley -square, on the body of Elizabeth Richards, aged 45 years. Judith Hemborough, a servant of Edmund Burke Lambert, Esq., of 26, Lower Grosvenor -street, Berkeley-square, deposed that the de ceased had lived as housemaid in the family of that gen tleman for the last seventeen years. She retired to rest in in her usual health about eight o'clock last Saturday night. Witness went to bed to her at ten o'clock and conversed with her for a considerable time, after which they both went to sleep. Witness woke at five o'clock, the next morning, and was greatly alarmed at finding the deceased lying on her side, apparently asleep, but in reality a corpse. The Coroner having made a few appropriate remarks on the uncertainty of life, the Jury returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.--Yesterday morning, as an omnibus was coming down Oxford-street towards High street, St. Giles's, the horses suddenly took fright, and starting off at fearful speed, the vehicle came in contact with a coal-waggon nearly opposite Hanway-street, and the horses were in an instant disengaged from the omnibus. The driver and a gentleman who sat on the roof, were thrown by the concussion most violently from their seats on to the pavement. The former is most dreadfully bruised, and the latter had his leg broken. The recruiting for the City police force goes on slowly. About a hundred men are still wanting. Se veral men offer themselves every morning at nine o'clock at Mr. Superintendent \Vhitham's office in Guildhall, but they do not come up to the mark, as they arc required to be nearly six feet high, not more than thirty-five years old, able to write a good hand, take a cab number fast, and refer to persons who can speak to their good conduct for five years past. THE .NEWCASTLE MURDER.---.The verdict of the jury upon the Coroner's inquest' was communicated to Bolam in gaol this morning (Saturday) in the presence of his two brothers, who remain with him at present. kle received the awful intelligence in solemn silence, but evi dently in deep mental agony. Apparently he had antici pated the result. He is not disposed to be communicative. He is calm, and enjoys his meals and sleep. His health appears to be good. The directors of the Savings' Bank have, with admirable promptitude, taken upon themselves not only to see that immediate want shall not be added to the sorrow and bitterness which have befallen the four young and helpless children of the unfortunate Millie, but to originate a subscription in their behalf, with a view to their being brought up and placed out in the world in a creditable manner. There never was an appeal made to the public more entirely entitled to the generous sympathy and assistance of the public at large than the case of these poor children. Let it, then, be responded to in a manner worthy a Christian people. The subscriptions necessary for accomplishing the desirable purpose alluded to should not be confined to the locality alone where the awful tragedy occurred ; and we would hint that the public at large in all the neighbouring towns would do well to aid such a benevolent object as the provision for the care and educa tion of those destitute innocent creatures. The children are four in number ; a boy fourteen, and a girl twelve (these two have been examined on the inquest); the others are a girl between eight and nine, and a boy five years of age. And it may be stated, to the honour and credit of their parents, that thus far they have been brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord.—Second Edition of tin Newcastle Journal. STOPPAGE OF THE BANK OF BELGIUM. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BRUSSELS, DEC. 17, 1838. The interest attached to the decision of the London Conference upon the 24 Articles, has been suddenly sus pended by the stoppags of the Bank of Belgium —an event which has caused the strongest sensation in this town ; and which must create alarm in every part of Belgium. Up to a late hour on Saturday night, the credit of the Bank was unimpeached ; notwithstanding that its stock, which stood at 50 per cent. premium, a few weeks ago, had recently undergone a severe depreciation on the Paris Bourse ; and the public was, therefore, wholly unprepared for the notice, this morning, of the suspension of payment. Various rea sons have been assigned for the embarrassments of the Bank. It had a paid up capital of twenty millions of francs (800,0001.) ; its circulation was extremely limited— rarely exceeeing a fourth of its capital ; it had only two branches (one at Antwerp and another at Liege) the business of which was very circumscribed ; and the Go vernor, or chief director, who is Master of our Mint, has the credit of being a skillful financier. The Bank was founded in 1835, byan Arritc Royale, and it has twice paid its shareholders upwards of seven per cent. None of the directors are accused of misappropriating the capital, or compromising the credit of the Bank in the wholesale style practised by one of your joint-stock banks in the north of England ; and the state of the commercial world cannot be charged with bringing on the crisis. To what circumstances, then, is this unfortunate circumstance to be attributed? I discard the idle rumour of a rival hank,La So ciete Generale, having been guilty of a suicidal act, of crushing the Bank ; because the stoppage has produced a run upon that Bank itself, and upon another, La Societe de Commerce, with which La Societe Generale is asso ciated; the capital of the latter protecting the engage ments of the former. Besides which, the present cloudy aspect of our political horizon anxiously demanding the maintenance of public credit, and, consequently, the free and active agency of all the banking institutions in the country, farther negatives so absurd a supposition. The real source of the mischief will be found to have arisen from the Bank having assisted in the formation of several Joint stock Companies, for working coal and iron mines, carry ing on various manufactures, &c. (which should have been left to individual enterprize and capital), upon the shares of which, according to its published reports, it has advanced large sums of money (considerably beyond, it is reported, the amount of its paid-up capital); and afforded other kinds of assistance repugnant to the prin ciples of banking. These shares have been rapidly falling in value for several months past ; and some of them are now said to be unsaleable, even at a heavy sacrifice. The drain which these advances must have occasioned upon the funds of the Bank, and the natural anxiety of the Directors to put every shilling of their remaining capital and resources afloat to sustain their banking connection, must have re duced the reserve of bullipn so low, as to hazard the credit of the Bank upon any unlooked-for demand for the payment of a considerable amount of its notes. This conclusion is borne out by the fact of notes to the amount of two or three millions of francs having been presented for payment on Saturday last, by the Societe Generale, which being the State Cashier, is frequently the temporary custodier of a considerable proportion of the paper money of the kingdom The Bank of Belgium, it is supposed, will not finally swine up, but will resume payment after a certified statement o its assets and liabilities has been submitted to a meeting o: its shareholders. But, in the meanwhile the stoppage, with the consequent restriction which, upon their usual MEETING OF THE WORKING MEN'S ASSO CIATION. Pursuant to advertisement, a meeting of the above Asso ciation was held last night in the Assembly Rooms, Theobald's road, in order to consider of the present state of affairs re specting the National Petitioe, th e P eop l e ' s Charter, s;c. Mr. HETHERINGTON was called to the Chair, and said, the meeting had been assembled for the purpose of laying before the working men of London an account of the progress of those principles which it was known they entertained, and an account of the success which had attended the labours of those who had been delegated to promulgate those principles amongst their brethren in the country. As the subject must be most interesting to them, he would not detain them from hearing the statements of those who were to address them ; he would only entreat that they would give a fair and im partial hearing to every person who might wish to address them, for their cause was worth nothing unless it could stand up and vindicate its propriety against all gainsayers. Let them vindicate themselves in a proper and open manner, and then they must put an end to all the foolish apprehensions which were professed to be entertained by the old women of the country.—( Cheers and laughter.) Mr. HARTWELL said the meeting had been convened by himself and others for the purpose of telling the working men of the metropolis the state of feeling in the country respecting the great objects of the Association—to hear from O'Connor, Vincent, and others what was the excited state of the country, and to show them that the apathetic state of the metropolis was a disgrace to the labouring classes congre gated therein.—(Cheers.) The Committee thought the time had arrived when the men of London should either give in their adhesion to the principles of the Charter and the National Petition, or to say that they should dissent from them, for the time had now arrived when they would be compelled to say, "He who is not with us is against us."—( Cheers.) It would not be enough for the men of London to say they agreed with them; they must steadily and firmly support the principle, and be prepared to do all that the Convention told them was for their benefit. Any man who flinched from that test was nor riend to the workingclasses. He (Mr. Hartwell) had recently been in the west of England, and' the scenes which he had witnessed among the agricultural labourers was most distressing; they were enough to make one swear that a system which produced so much misery should at once be destroyed. The average rate of wages in the districts he had visited did not exceed 7s. a week—(Groans)—yet the farmer charged the poor man 9s. 6d. a bushel for his flour. The e ttn c hh o p ee n o consequence e aa q pbs po u o i e ut na n r gte c ors e es aswwf andaebs that rree aseda enthusiastic tt_ t ,h h ue( ands aa bread.—(Cries e o oi scu drinkrni i nf n g s h tha m wema a er n s. mu) pwasw aterpoAripstthl r t p e oetuttoy d nrhhrwr u eooetet o c lhuyto e tusheshu d al geyedemr ao t ved o live htehe Charter. Ile had a meeting on Charlton Down, and notwith standing all the means used to deter the men from attending —notwithstanding the threats and the actual tyranny exercised over the poor men, there was a glorious meeting held, at which the Charter and the Petition were unanimously adopted. —( Cheers.) In East Suffolk, there was to be a meeting held on Wednesday, for the same purpose, and he had not the submitted re, ifrocnoa have;. f o grot u ,euL n tdlaohd r at y athdhtg , eohewi nev dhw t h eH couldam p Associa tions hni ot slightest doubt, with the same result. While he was in the Gloucestershire,sh:eteen d haddaawo down several delegateso t her applicationsplaces, ansoon if prayingthey o m now.—(Loud cheers.) He thought the working men (Cheers.) If the Convention, if the Delegates to the Con vention, were not supported in the town where they delibe tnihlegi y,to might aceai them could responsibility n ohl b s dos i e b tua, o t :Pl a t e teha were eo sayingba pl f l eo r e d o s g gi mw a hi s vfleinnctihonfr,oifmthieLy—ap( eoadta eigtnwovhni netacoraesmtt agitated their as cheerful they adhesionu ld h e i n theto tehnesucinhganlrteernth, p C r h o e v e e r d s .0)f th T e h c e h r a e r s t o e l r ut a i n o d ns th w e hi p ch et w iti e n r n e to be nominating a Committee of agitation for the metropolitan districts. He trusted the labours of the Committee would have got the people into such a state of organization that they would be able to bring from 2,000 to 3,000 from each district to welcome the Delegates into London.—(Cheers.) As they, no doubt, were anxious to bear the statements of Messrs. O'Connor and Vincent, he would content himself with moving the adoption of the three resolutions. Mr. F. O'CONNOR then came forward, and was received with deafening cheers. He addressed Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen, and all brother Radicals : he rejoiced to see the coming of the battle—it might be fought there, but its re. sults would be felt universally.—(Cheers.) When he last pre sided over a meeting in that place, he was assisting to establish a club for the purpose of obtaining Universal Suffrage. The effects of that club, and other exertions, had indeed been glorious ; for the people, almost universally, were now determined to have their rights—they were determined not to be bamboozled any longer out of their rights by Whig or Tory, or any faction. He did not wish to attack property of any description. Many persons were now rolling in wealth and luxury, which had been wrung from the blood and sinews of the working men. The working classes, how ever, are satisfied to let them retain their ill-gotten wealth, and to begin afresh, and to make their all out of the natural resources of the country. The old women who had been al luded to by Mr. INtherington, might therefore lay aside their fears and slumber in safety. He, however, was of opinion along with Poor Richard, who once lived in the North. Poor Richard, or John of Greenfield, All the stuff in tie world, were made for all the people of the world.''—(Loud cheers.) That was his opinion ; and if it were not for the Corn-lords and Cotton-lords—but, above all, if it were not for the Government-lords, there would be more than enough for all to live in a state of happiness and peace. The people of London were apathetic because they were bet ter off than their brethren in the North ; but if the Govern ment were allowed to go on their present way, no barrier could be drawn round London—the contagion must rapidly spread among the London workmen, as it now raged among those in the country. The question with them was not whether they were more comfortable than the working men in Yorkshire, but were they as comfortable as they ought to be.—(Loud cheers.) When he saw their faces, which were not so fat as they ought to be—when he saw their dresses, which were not so good as they ought to be—then he knew they were not so well off as they ought to be. He saw many Irish faces around him—they were; speaking to him in Irish.—( Loud laughter) and asking him what he was going to do for Ireland. By the blessing of God, he would do as they intended to do for England—(Cheers)—although the world was his republic, Ireland was the land of his birth, and he would be no party to postpone any of those healing measures so much needed for that unhappy country, and if Ireland did not obtain justice, England should not, if he could impede it. The Hon. Gen tleman then alluded to O'Connell's conduct, in regard to the cry of " Justice to Ireland," in much the same language as he would give every single m an t h e appointing o appeared in our Paper of last night. As to Co r p orate Re form,te officers by means of U n i versa l S uffrage. He would change his politics to suit any party, and he w as now as s teady an advocate for that upon w hi c h h e started, viz., the Repeal of the Union , as he ever was, for he felt, that until Ireland had her own nobles and her own representatives in College-green, she would never have justice. Yorkshire and Lancashire return one-tenth of the House of Commons ; are determined to have their rights ; they a re un it e d to a the people there are determined to be trifled with no longer; they man, and were determined that they would no longer support any one who would not support their cause. They were now on ly carrying out the principles formerly urge d b y L or d Lord Grey, Sir J. Hobhouse, Sir F. Burdett, others. If they required a mora l f orce to carry the aßßnerdorournrgmahnayßalil, why could they not employ it also to carry out its natural results ? The people would have backed them, but as soon as that was done, they refused to hurt the feelings of the Tories by turning them out from office. They retained them as a sort of army of reserve upon which they m ight fall back when th e y h a d d ece i ved the people. The H on . Gentleman explained his ideas with respect to the Irish Church, and the employment of physical force in nearly the same language as appeared in the report of his speech in our Paper of yesterday. These meet ings were now becoming more important than they ever were before, fur they were now going upon the wings of the Press, not only through England and Ireland, but all over the world ; and he could not withhold his thanks from the proprietor of The Sun Newspaper, who had given the best report he ( Mr. O'Connor) had ever seen of a Radical meet ing—he meant that held last night at Mr. Chesney's Rooms. —( Loud cheers.) He cared not what description of article, or comment, the Editor of that Paper might write upon the meetings of the Working Men's Associations ; it was quite at the discretion of Editors to comment as they pleased, provided they laid the circumstances before the people, and allowed them to judge between the principles expressed and the judg ment of the Editors.—(Cheers ) This was all he claimed and asked ; and he looked on it as a sign of better days, when be saw a Whig Newspaper giving so good a report of a Radical meeting. He knew it would give courage to their friends in the North—a body of which the Government was more afraid than all the rest of the world besides.—(Cheers.) Let the people of London look to the North, and mark the proceed ings of the people there. They were virtuous, straightfor ward, zealous, and determined, and could assemble together in force, although they were in sections, and spread asunder. But shame upon the people of London, who could be got together ty the ring of a bell, that there was not such a union here ! Therd wigs one small villnge, which he could name, containing more Unioni sts t h an a ll London put together !—( Cheers.) They must now, however, cast aside every Species of timidity, for this was a cause worth living and dying for, and must never lie dPsserted:—( Cheers.) When Lord Stanley opposed the ftelieal Of tile Union, lit roes very physical, for he said he would oppose it to the death ; and he (Mr. O'Connor) would go for Universal Suffrage, if necessary, to ;the death.—(Loud cll eets• ) Why ? Because it would make those who survived him more happy and totefottable, and the country more tran quil. Universal Suffrage was a question but little understood by the Go ve rnment. Did they think they could atop it ? Who was t o b e thei r stal l -gap 7 'the Westminster Reformers, in their ti m idi ty an d cowa rdice, tried to hook Lord Durham in to st o p th e gap , an d lie (Mr. O'Con ner) never praised him such slap l a tool arid he trusted when any more wanted to make do n the same.—(Cheers.) In the so much as f or th r owing these poltroons overboard.—( Loud face ;d cheers.) H e was g lad that they had got of the peopl e , they would proposed to-night were for h le as to the man the purpose of testing the opinion of t h e peo e p to coming not to ner in which they would meet those course of six weeks Parliament would be once more assembled in St. Stephens. The resolutions h ir minds within the pe riod, whether or not the forty-nine e men who had put _ them selves in the foremost ranks of moral danger, and were ready oppose the Parliament, but to place t w hei o r wisdom w in oppt sition to its folly. They had to make up t in the ranks of physical danger—whether these men in order to resist the force of tyranny to place themselves fore most operations, it will impose upon tho other banks, will be severely felt by every class of the mercantile community, at this period when money is so much in demand. Every transient evil, however, is sooner or later attended with good. The fate of the Bank of Belgium will, it is hoped, produce an entire change in the Belgic system of banking, which is admitted to be vicious in principle, and fraught with danger to the public and to the banks them- selves. La Societe Generale (La Grande Banque as it is familiarly styled)—the only other bank in Belgium which has a protective capital, and can challenge the public confi dence, has, like the other, locked up a large portion of its capital in the shares of trading associations (which have been formed under its patronage) ; in advances upon raw materials, and upon other securities, of which the value is fluctuating and uncertain. Such advances upon securities, too, which cannot be easily converted, limit what I might call the strictly banking action of the Company ; and hence the capital, instead of flowing into all the channels of indus try, and rapidly returning into the coffers of the Com pany, has a limited and unproductive sphere of operation. In fact, cne of its rules is not to dis count a bill that has not at least three names upon it! the paid up capital of La Societe Generale is about four millions sterling, more than two-fifths of which, however, are invested in a part of the celebrated forest of Soignes, the value of which the Bank must realize at the termination of its charter, in December, 1849. The inadequacy of these two Companies to supply the banking wants of a popula tion of upwards of four millions, now that every branch of their industry is developing itself with unexampled vigour, must be apparent to the merest tyro in political economy. This country presents an admirable field for the operations of a well-administered Banking Company, with a substan tial paid up capital ; and at this moment the Belgians would hail the establishment of such a Company with un qualified satisfaction. Whoever takes the field may rely upon reaping an abundant harvest. (From the Brussels Papers received this morning.) The Independent says—" For some days past a dread ful panic has prevailed on the Exchange of Paris respecting the shares of the Bank of Belgium, which, in less than a week, have fallen nearly 200 francs per share. 'We look in vain for the causes of such a depreciation. The affairs of the Bank were never in a more prosperous and solid condi tion. The success of the Branch Banks at Liege and Ant werp has surpassed all expectations, and we believe we may affirm that these establishments alone have in the course of this year done business to the amount of above 50 millions." BRUSSELS, DEC. I7.—The Bank of Belgium announces that it is obliged to make a temporary suspension of its payments. The General Society announces, that, by the desire of the Government, it guarantees the repayment of the sums deposited in the Savings' Banks established by the Bank of Belgium. What may give an idea of the solidity of the mode of doing business in Belgium is, that since the establishment of the Bank, it has sustained only one loss of 2,500 francs. The fears of war, even supposing them not to be exaggerated, ought not, we think, to affect the shares of the Bank of Belgium only ; but there is no reasoning with fear. " The judicious holders may suffer this moment of alarm to p iss, of which jobbers take advantage, and which, with confidence for the general meeting in March, and the an nual report which will then be made, we hope that this suspension will be only temporary, and will not have the dis;u consequences which fear takes pleasure in pro pagating and exaggerating." BRUSSELS, DEC. IB.—The Independent expresses its great regret for having published the article announcing the solidity of the Bank of Belgium. It is said that Colonel Bire, who is net personally known to the Editor, but whom he knows to be intimately connected with the Bank, called at the office, and speaking of the fall o f t h e shares at Paris, d ec l a r e d that the panic was unfounded, and requested that the article might be inserted, which the edi tor, suspecting nothing, complied with. It is to be observed that the Bank of Belgium is not a Government establishment. The Cozerrier Bete says, that in the first panic yesterday (the 16th), the holders of notes of the Society of Com merce and of the General Society hastened to the officers of their establishments:to get them changed for cash, but per ceiving that their payments were immediately made, this panic ceased, and many who had received money for their notes, brought it back and took notes again for it. It is apprehended, however, that several houses which are in embarrassed circumstances will take their opportunity to declare themselves insolvent, under the pretext that the funds were in the Bank of Belgium. The Earl of Cardigan has given the liberal sum of 1001. in aid to the funds of the Peterborough Diocesan Church Building Association. To created In the ne i g hb our h ood during the past wee k, in MEETINOS.—Some alarm has been con sequence of th e ex t raor di nary and intemperate con d uc t o f a number of men, calling themselves " Chartists." In another part of our present number We publish the particalars of the destruction of a cotton-mill, at Ashton-under-Lyne, on Saturday last. This occurrenc e has been attributed, by cer tain parties, to the influence or agency of a band at hail , - brained agitators, beaded by O'Connor and Stephens ; but we have the best authority for stating, that the most proba ble cause of the disaster VvaS the spotitaneOuS combustion of a quantity of cotton waste that had accumulated beneath the floors of the mill, whilst they were in a shattered and dilapidated condition. The owner and occupiers of the mill have arrived at this conclusion, after a most searching and careful investigation ; and from the filets stated to tis, we have not a doubt that they attribute the destruction of their property to its real cause . — lliattellester Courier. STATE OF TRADE.--The near approach of Christ mas, and the uncerta i nty of the cotton market, have this week oper a t e d to prevent any active demand for yarn, which remains n om i na ll y at list week's prices ; but transactions are exceedi ng l y li m i te d . in manufactured goods there is not much ch ange , except that 7-Bth calicoes are not quite so brisk as f or some wee k s past, the demand runnin g Rule upon 9-Bth cloth.—Manchester Guardian. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1838. were worthy of support.—(Cheers. This agitation was un paralleled, and if any Government could stand up against a united people, it would cease to be a Constitutional Govern ment, and would become a military despotism. The invant a Government said it would not attend to, and surrender the de mands of two millions of persons, they were placed beyond the pale of the law, and absolved from their allegiance.—(Cheer ing.) That there would be a great struggle no man could doubt, and that the people were prepared for it became plainer every day. There would be an attempt at counter-excitement, a kind of St. John Long counter principle of irritation— (Laughter)—but he hoped they would not give the people a wound in the back.—( Cheers. ) The Ballot and the Corn laws might be offered, but let the people refuse them until they obtained Universal Suffrage. An objection to granting this was, that the people were too ignorant. If they were, they would get it to-morrow, for the ignorance of the people was the tyrant's best title to power. When would the people have sufficient knowledge, according to the Whig standard? Not until doomsday.—(Cheers and laughter.) Notwithstanding what had been said and done, he hoped and believed that the Irish people would unite with the English, and force them forward in this agitation. He had a great respect for Paddy, and knew what he could do when he got a shillelah in his hand and a principle before him which told him that he might, instead of being a voluntary exile in this country, by the use of his own energies become a happy man in his own country. Irishmen did not come here from choice, but because they could not help it, through the fell tyranny of the landlords, the injustice of the Magistrates, and the brutality of the damnable parsons.—(Cheers.) They came here for an asylum, and he was happy to say that asylum they were sure to meet, for where an Irishman was indus trious and honest, he never knew an Englishman turn his back upon him.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) It would be presumptuous in him, whilst others were doing so much, to say one word about what he himself had done, but while in the House of Commons and out of it, he had stood by the Ultra-Democratic principle. He had never yet in thought, word, speech, or writings, expressed a single sentence against the fullest measure of liberty for the people. Before he entered Parliament he made a pledge to his constituents that he would never receive place or emolument from any Government that was not based upon the principle of Universal Suffrage, and that he never would receive from the people one farthing for travelling or other expenses during the whole course of his life.--(Cheers.) That pledge he had kept-- (Cheers.) He had been denounced by the newspapers as a vagabond and a wild enthusiast. He had spent thousands in the cause of the people, with no hope of ever getting it back again other wise than by being overpaid in seeing the poor happy, their fire-side comfortable, and their children gamboling about it. When he saw that, he should say he was the debtor • of the Ra dicals, because the Radicals had accomplished it for them selves.—(Loud cheers.) He would stand between the people and alarm. The Morning Chronicle and the Globe, the bull dog and the terrier of the Whig Government—( Laughter)— said there was no other salvation for the country than a rural police ; a rural police to take Feargus O'Connor.— ( Laughter.) Would they stand a rural police ?—(Cries of " No, no.") That was one of the next things that would be attempted to be forced upon them. The Government were beginning to say through the Chronicle, that the army had not the power of übiquity—that there could not be a soldier behind ev, ry torch, and that, therefore, there must be a rural police, a thing unknown to this country.—( Hear, hear.) Only by Universal Suffrage could they put that down. The struggle they made for the Reform Bill would have carried Universal Suffrage.—( Hear, hear.) At every meeting at which the repeal of the Corn-laws was mooted, let them go like men, and more an amendment for Universal Suffrage. If the Ballot was agitated let them move the same amendment. He could scarcely say, after the fatigue he had undergone— attending meetings 150 miles apart, that he should have been there at all had it not been for the threat of George Henry Ward, and to show him that he despised it, and that he was in no danger, because he was too deeply rooted in the affections of the people, and was actuated by honest motives.—( Cheers.) Let them be united. He would not be the subject of dispute—he would create no dissensions, be cause he had this cause really at heart. He was not ad vocating the cause of the people merely from personal vanity or ambition. He cared not what sufferings or deprivation he himself underwent— " Come he slow or come he fast, It is but death that comes at last." He was determined to go on continuously and energetically until Universal Suffrage became the law of the land. — (Loud cheering.) With these remarks, he thanked them for the patient and indulgent hearing they had given hirri. He would now leave them, but would always attend them with more alacrity than he would a summons to appear at West minster Hall:—" By the Grace of God, Victoria Queen, Defender of the Faith," and so forth. He thanked them. (Mr. O'Connor resumed his seat amidst loud plaudits.) Mr. VINCENT supported the resolution. They belonged to a party who although creating a great mass of wealth, obeying every law, and contributing largely towards the wasteful ex penditure and extravagance of the State, yet had no share in the advantages and honours of the Constitution.—( Hear, hear.) They bore all its burdens, were bending under all its oppressions, and were branded with the vile namo of slave. Why ? Because they were cowards at heart, and had not the courage to tell the Government the hour had come when jus tice must be done to the people.—Hear, hear, hear.) ,There existed in London yet a sufficient mass of materials to make old St. Stephen's crack before it.—( Cheers.) It had been the cue of the Daily Press to throw every possible con tempt on all the demonstrations of the people. Every art and artifice that some cunning, cringing, pettifogging, penny-a line scamp could possibly invent to blacken the character of the people, bad been resorted to, and thus meetings of 200,000 individuals have dwindled down, in the columns of the honest Times—and perhaps more honest Chro nicle—to 10,000, 15,000, or 20,000.—(Loud cheering.) He had been in the west of England for come time, and could bear testimony to the fact, that there the people were as well, if not better organised, than in the north—there were as prompt, vigorous, energetic, and determined souls there as existed in the glorious northern districts of England.— ( Cheers.) In the aristocratic city of Bath, he had the honour of addressing 15,000 as fine " pisantry," as ever graced Daniel O'Connell in his best days. At Bradford, a few miles from Bath, 10,000 persons had assembled with 200 torches, to the terror of every tyrant who had oppressed them. In Trou bridge, 10,000 persons had assembled by the ring of a bell in half an hour, and that was what ought to be, and must be done in London.—( Great cheering.) At Bristol, the people were rather apathetic, but a meeting for the purpose of rousing them was to be held there in the course of a few days. In Wales, nearly the whole population were in such a state of agitation and organization as had never before been witnessed ; and a meeting was to be held of the hardy mountaineers, at which speakers in the Welch language were to attend and proclaim the glad tidings of liberty, and extend the bond of brotherhood. Of course, the Government were aware of what was going on, and how many pccple were organised in different places, and it was evident from their anxiety about the rural police, that they knew the game would be up when the people of London moved.—(Great cheering.) The wes tern part of England was in an effective state of organization, they acknowledge no sovereign but the people—they acknow ledge no laws but laws made by themselves—they would pay no taxes, except they had a voice in the laying on of those taxes.— (Cheers.) They would do more than that. If the Whigs wanted aid to go to Canada to butcher the honest up right patriots, and sent down their militia lists, the answer would be, " No vote, no musket—fight yourselv es. "—( Cheers.) The Whigs might raise an alarm that Russia wanted to take Turkey or Persia, or some other place, but the answer would be—" They may take the devil himself, but they shall not get us to fight—let them fight who gain by the battle."—( Loud cheers.) Those who talked so much against physical force were using it to put down liberty in Canada ; and when he read of twenty-six brave Canadians having been brought to Liverpool, manacled as felons —men, who ought to be ho noured and idolized by the masses for their patriotism, he wished there had been 100,000 men to rescue them. —( Cheers.) Physical force I that had hitherto destroyed the best efforts of the people, who would not suffer war to be made on Canada if they could help it, but who would do justice to the Canadians by elevating them into a glorious Republic.—(Continued cheers.) Not only the West, but the North of England, and the whole of Scotland, were united to a man. At Newcastle- upon-Tyne 100,000 men assembled, and though surrounded by a body of the Queen's troops, who were perhaps sent as a body-guard—(Laughter)—they stood firm, smiling at their red-coated brethren, and hailed them with "threecheers for the Charter,"—(Cheers.) Not a large town or village in Scot_ land was without its Association ; not a district was there in which a delegate had not been elected. Now as to the south of England, that stronghold of the parsons : at Chelmsford, Ipswich, and Colchester there were glorious bodies of demo. crats, and in six months the southern division of England would be quite up to the mark.—( Cheers.) From personal experience and communications, he could say that the cause was daily and hourly progressing, and the people had now such a band of moral and physical power as to enable them to take their rights from the Government any moment they thought it prudent to do so.—(Cheers.) Any change, to be successful, must be brought about peacefully ; but the people must not allow the Government to think they could dragcon them into submission. The people would beat them, but without bloodshed ; they would astound them by a moral thunder-clap. When the time came for the assembling of the Convention, if the Government dared to lay a hand on its members to bring them to trial, the public mind in London ought to bo prepared for it : let it be ripe, and ready for the work ; and when the time came let no blow be struck let no bloody arm be raised—let no musket be elevated —but let the people assemble in every village, town, and hamlet, let them congregate in thousands and tens of thousands, and say, in peaceful and supplicatory language, " Let these boys out again, or we don't go back to work.".—(Great cheering.) Let the people in London concentrate all their energies to rally round the Convention in countless masses ; and when the traitor power of faction should dare to divide their councils, or the strong arm of a traitor Government be raised to impede their progress, then let one and all, in defence of liberty and right, raise his voice to heaven and exclaim " Long live the Convention we have chosen—long live the laws they will make—long live liberty and the Constitution I"—(Loud and long-continued cheerincr.) Mr. M' CON NELL addressed the meeting, after which the re solutions were agreed to. MR. PL UM ER WA RD'S NEW WORK.—We are requested to state that the new work of fiction, entitled " Pictures of the World, at Home and Abroad," by the author of " Trcmaine," and " De Vere," was published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough•strect, and may be had at all the Libraries in town and country, and of the Publisher's regents, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, and Mr. John Cntrpaing, Dublin. LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA. (From New York Papers received to the 2d inst.) (From the Journal of Commerce, De c . 1.) The Montreal Gazette of Thursday contains three ad ditional ordinances; one declaring that in all cases of judg ment to death it shall has e the effect of an attainder upon the estates and property of the parties sentenced, without prejudice, however, to the rights of creditors. The second attaches the guilt and punishment of felony to the administration of oaths for treasonable purposes. The third extends the provisions of the two preceding and other ordinances for the suppression of re bellion to the district of St. Francis. The Gazette contains also a list of prisoners committed to the Montreal gaol on charges of high treason. It numbers probably 600. The following are the only names given as be longing to the United States :—Patrick Hays and Henry Bates, Swanton (American deserters), Joseph Cadieux, Massachusetts; Benjamin Mott, Alburgh, Vermont; Daniel Woolfred, New York. MONTREAL, Nov. 26.—At seven o'clock yesterday morn ing the thermometer stood at six degrees below zero—an ex traordinary degree of cold at this season. The Montreal Courier of the 22d November states that nothing had yet been dune by the Court-martial. Their dila toriness created much dissatisfaction among the people, who were impatient for the blood of the prisoners. (From the Rochester Democrat.) We are informed, by a gentleman from Toronto, that the inhabitants of that city were on Sunday last thrown into a prodigious ferment, by a couple of men going before Governor Arthur, and making affidavit that William Lyon Mackenzie was within six miles of the city with an armed force. The Governor's proclamation was immediately circulated through the churches (during service), and through the city, offering a reward of 4,000 dollars for his apprehension. The place was in an uproar of excitement, and a body of regulars was forthwith despatched in hot pursuit of the rebels, who, of course, were not to be found. (From the New York Morning Herald.) There are 573 prisoners in Montreal gaol on the charge of treason. This number, added to those confined at Fort Henry, make a total number of 735 prisoners, who are shortly to be tried for their lives. The Buffalo papers are glorifying Von Shultz, because, as they say, he is a Pole, and, like Brutus, ran on his own sword. They compare him to Marco Bozzaris, and a host of heroes. Unfortunately for the perpetuity of all this rhodomontade about this brigand, he is a rascally Russian; and, so far from running on his own sword, he will have to go down by the run, " paid off" with a halter. " The official returns of the late battle furnishes the fol lowing list of killed and wounded, &e., on both sides : " GOVERNMENT. Wounded. Officers Rank and file 6 Rank and file Killed. 8 " PATRIOTS, &C. Killed Prisoners Missing 102 162 25 289 " Wolfred Nelson, Gauvin, Bouchette, and Vigil, are at St. Alban's, making arrangements for another outbreak. " The British armament on the Lower Lake consists of 4 armed steamers, 4 armed schooners. and about 20 gun-boats. The hard-working, tax-paying people of England, will have to pay all this expense." Papineau and Nelson have been in this city concerting measures to get back to Canada without loss of life, limb, or property. They sojourned at the Tremont-house, and held several secret meetings to devise measures to carry out their plans. They also held several interviews with certain gentle men, and endeavoured to enlist them so far in their behalf as to intercede for them with the Canadian Government. They have now also all gone to Washington to try what they can do frith Mr. Fox. They are tired of their present mode of life ; they are short of money; their pockets are empty; therefore they philosophise. Patriotism sits poorly upon an empty sto mach, and lovers of liberty all over the world would rather digest a good dinner than a dose of lead. LATEST FROM BUENOS AIRES AND MONTE VIDEO. By the brig Edwin, Captain Varney, we have received Buenos papers to the 29th of September, and Monte Video letters to the Bth of October. The Edwin left Monte Video on the 10th of October, at which time the United States schooner Dolphin was in port. The posture of affairs in that quarter had not materially changed since the date of our previous advices. The city of Monte Video still held out against the outside or revolutionary party. The blockade of Buenos Ayres continued, and our correspondent was of opinion that it would result in war. The probability is that a French expedition, consisting of the Diademe, ranee 74, and two corvette transports, with an ag gregate of 1,600 men on board, besides the crews, is now on its way to Buenos Ayres from France. The Buenos Ayreans were also making preparations for war. The blockading squadron off Buenos Ayres had sent seven prizes into Monte Video, five of them Buenos Ayrean, and tEe other two bearing the flag of the Oriental Republic. The French Consul at Monte Video having made arrangements for the sale of these vessels by auction, the Oriental Govern ment interposed objections, and a sharp correspondence en sued. There was also a correspondence between the French and British Consuls, in consequence of the latter having ex pressed an opinion (in answer to inquiries from a person who expressed a disposition to bid for some of the prizes) that they would not be safe from subsequent attachment by the original owners. IMPORTANT. RUMOURS FROM MEXICO.-The New Orleans papers of the 21st announce a letter from Lieutenant Clouet, now com manding the French brig of war Laurite, (at present at Havannah), stating that the French fleet had commenced bombarding the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, and had debarked 3,000 troops on the coast, and were on their march to Vera Cruz. This letter was received by the British brig Catherine, which sailed from Havannah on the 17th. But Captain Webster arrived on the 22d in the Levin Jones, from Havan nah, which place he left on the 15th; he says he was not aware of the news of the bombardment of St. Juan de Ulloa having reached Havannah, neither was the Captain of the British brig Catherine, stated to have brought the letter from Lieutenant Clouet. There had been no arrival from Sacrifi cios at Havannah previous to the sailing of the Levin Jones, so that we are inclined to place little reliance on the state ments given in some of the papers with respect to the debarca_ tion of troops and bombardment of the castle. FROM CENTRAL AMERlCA.—Letters of the 27th ult. from Belize, Honduras, state that the province of Guatemala was again in a complete state of revolution, the rebel chief Carrera having taken up arms against the Governm en t f or t h e second time, and with the aid o about 1,000 men had captured the old city of Guatemala, nearly every house and church of which he had robbed. He was subsequently driven out by General Lalagar from near Guatemala, after a severe action, in which 200 of his followers were killed. President Morazan, at the head of 3,000 men from St. Salvador, was in pursuit of the rebels, and hopes were entertained that the revolution would be soon suppressed. In consequence of the disturbed condition of the country, the crops of cochineal and indigo were expected to be very short.--Gazette. MONEY-MARKET, &c., DEC. 1. Five hundred shares of United States Bank Stock were sold at the Exchange Board yesterday, at 119 dollars to 1191 dollars per share. The offerings of other descriptions were very limited, with the exception of Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and Haarlem Railroad, which were large, and both of which declined in price, the former to .66 dollars to 661 dollars, and the latter to 42 dollars to 424- dollars per share: In the sales of other kinds no material change tran spired. The Money Market still continues very close • the great falling off in the prices of many descripti ons o f stocks, and the gradual withdrawal of stock loans by monied men and banking institutions, and the continued high rates of Exchange on England—all tend to the contraction of monetary transactions and to cause greater difficulties in the affairs of finance, not withstanding most of the undoubted business paper now of fering at the banks is discounted by them. It is stated that money in Philadelphia commands 11 per cent. per month, and that the United States Bank thave issued a notice requiring 15 per cent. to be paid on all stock notes, and the like sum at the end of every 60 days until such payments are made. FIRE AT MOBILE.--The theatre in St. Emanuel -street, Mobile, has been burnt down, and nothing saved of the exten sive wardrobe, scenery, furniture, &c. The houses from the theatre to the corner of Conti -street, and thence west along Conti to the large brick dwelling of Colonel Baptiste, were destroyed totally. The loss is estimated at nearly 100,000 dollars, and the insurance less than 20,000 dollars. The principal sufferers are Ludlow and Smith, managers of the theatre, who lost the whole of their theatrical wardrobe, sce nery, and properties. Their iron chest, account-books, &c., which were in the front office, were alone saved. This is the third time Mr. Manager Ludlow has been burnt out. He and old Colonel Smith have lost 20,000 dollars. They intend tor,open the Government-street Theatre. HORRID MURDERS IN MISSISSIPPI.— We copy the following revolting s tn nighta r rai ve of received bloo d shed the from G rena t d h Na ae (Mississippi) s t iss il i p e p ß i la Bulletinnne r: of the Bth instant, in which we find an account of a most horrible scene i o bso fb n l , 000dfshwedararennd county,murdcr soTidhesoßmseillet limo in sincestates, that Gideon Gibson, a tract of land o to Yazoon Wilson river, i v ander , and Simpson,some fort y with an agreement on fifty negroes, on a long credit on the part of Wilson to give to Gibson the proceeds of their crops annually in liquidation of the debt, and a lien on the whole property as security, and Gibson agreed to furnish them with open land to cultivate for a few years, until they could by degrees get a plantation open on their own land. For this purpose, Gibson rented the plantation of the Hon. Franklin E. Plummer. Finally, some misunderstanding arose between the parties. Gibson demanded to have the contract rescinded. To this Simpson agreed, but Wilson refused to give up the property. On Friday, the 2d inst., Gibson, Simp son, Clarke, Morrison, and Boytt, went on to the premises and took off the negroes by force. Wilson was in his own house, armed with a rifle and a double barrelled shot gun. As they passed the house he tired upon them, killing Morrison dead, and severely wounding Boytt. The company rode on with the negroes, leaving Morrison's body on the ground. Wilson re-loaded, cut through the field, got a-head of them, and fired again, killing Clark and probably Gibson. Simpson and Boytt and three negroes got off, and arrived at Dr. Fisher's neighbouring plantation. The other negroes took to the woods. Gibson's horse arrived at Dr. Fisher's, It was believed Gibson was killed. The sheriff and his posse were soon out in pursuit of Wilson."